Product Line Manager A / Sr

Since our founding in 1916, NSK has always strived to uncover and respond to society's needs, offering new motion that no one has ever imagined. Today, NSK's Motion & Control can be found almost everywhere: from cars and planes to homes and high-tech factories-from massive construction machines to tiny medical instruments. NSK products are broadly split into the categories of bearings, automotive products, and precision machinery products (e.g. ball screws, linear guides). NSK products and solutions are vital to ensuring the reliable and efficient operation of machinery used around the world.

The Product Line Manager A/Sr will lead the development and implementation of product line strategy, long term growth targets, and product line profitability.

• Understands, articulates, and captures customer needs and translates them into market requirements for product management.
• Understands customers' businesses and how NSK products and services apply to solution their needs.
• Creates and utilizes requirements documents and business plans, and launch plans for NSK products.
• Leverages business development relationships to help make products and offerings more rounded.
• Generates business cases to support and justify product extensions and product enhancements.
• Reviews revenue streams around products and product lines, and assesses profitability on a monthly basis.
• Suggests approaches to marketing and sales in order to drive NSK growth.
• Drives increases in business by developing consumer-right products that corresponds with company financial targets.
• Responsible for generating market trends, consumer insights, growth opportunities, and idea generation and product development.
• Develops channel new product launch communication strategies.
• Produces business statistics price points, product mix sales history, and competition data for product introduction.